Constructed Movements: Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Constructed Movements (UC Press 2024) centers stories from communities in Mexico profoundly affected by emigration to the United States to show how migration extracts resources along racial lines. Ragini Shah chronicles how three interrelated dynamics—the maldistribution of public resources, the exploitation of migrant labor, and the US immigration enforcement regime—entrench the necessity of migration as a strategy for survival in Mexico.

Author

Ragini Shah is Clinical Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, where she is founding director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic.